Getty Images Former Bears quarterback Matt Forte has strongly criticized Brian Urlacher for criticizing NBA players for playing a game in protest of Jacob Blake’s shooting. Forte, who has been a team member of Urlacher for five years, wrote on Twitter at Urlacher song with his post on social media …
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US, Russia trade debt to US troops wounded in Syria
The United States and Russia traded the blame Thursday for an incident earlier in the week in Syria that injured several U.S. troops. In its first official statement on the issue, the Pentagon said on Thursday that Russia was engaging in “deliberately provocative and aggressive behavior” when a Russian military …
Read More »Unsealed archives provide new clues to Pope Pius XII’s response to the Holocaust
ROME – When the Vatican opened its sealed archives from the pontificate of World War II of Pius XII in March, Brown University historian David I. Kertzer was one of the first in a series. Like many other scholars, Drs. Kertzer has been eager to mine the papers of a …
Read More »Coronavirus: Obesity ‘Increases Covid-19 Risk’
Image copyright Getty Images Fat weight doubles the risk of hospitalization of Covid-19 and increases the risk of dying by almost 50%, suggests a global analysis. Obesity makes other diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure more likely, say American researchers. Together with a weakened immune system, this can …
Read More »Resident living in Marion County section of The Villages under 11 in area dead of COVID-19
Eleven more locals have succumbed to COVID-19 as the virus continues to plague the entire Tri-Territory. One of the dead was a 75-year-old woman living in the Marion County section of The Villages. Those who tested positive July 18 had not recently traveled, but had been in contact with another …
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